Commander Andrew Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department has shot down reports that a charred body has been found inside the burned out cabin Tuesday night where Christopher Jordan Dorner was believed to be.

Smith said the cabin was still too hot to enter and "no body has been found."

Officers fired tear gas into the structure and stormed inside, a source told The Times.

According to the Times report, the body, which was found as officers sifted through the charred rubble of the mountainside cabin, was not positively identified. A source said that making a determination as to whether the body is that of the former Los Angeles Police Department officer could take hours or even days, the source said.

A law enforcement source told The Times that police broke windows, fired tear gas into the cabin and told Dorner to surrender.

With no response, police ripped down the walls of the cabin. Then they heard a gunshot, according to a source.

The former Navy reservist began his run from the law on Feb. 6 after authorities connected the slayings of a former police captain's daughter and her fiance with an angry manifesto they said Dorner posted on Facebook. He vowed to bring "warfare" to Los Angeles police and their family members, which led the department to assign officers to guard more than 50 families connected to his so-called targets.

Within hours of the release of photos of the 6-foot, 270-pounder described as armed and "extremely dangerous," Dorner allegedly unsuccessfully tried to steal a boat in San Diego to flee to Mexico and then ambushed police in Riverside County, shooting three and killing one.

Jumpy officers guarding one of his targets in Torrance on Thursday shot and injured two women delivering newspapers because they mistook their pickup truck for Dorner's.

The hunt for Dorner appeared to go cold after his burned-out pickup was found later that morning in the mountains east of Los Angeles and his footprints disappeared on frozen ground.